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In Dolly We Trust

I posted this as a podcast so that I could re-up an interview I did last year with Martha Ackman, Dolly Parton’s biographer. You can read the show notes here, and purchase Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton (St. Martin’s Press, 2025) here.

Left to right: Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, and Smokey Robinson in the East Room of the White House after accepting honors from the Kennedy Center, December 3, 2006. Image credit: The Eric Draper/Wikimedia Commons

Years from now, people will ask each other: Where were you when you found out that Dolly Parton died? And we will all…

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